freezing mark. some areas stayed in the upper 20s. 31 degrees, the current tempature out there. windchills around 20 degrees. and look at the number around the region. already down to 23 in hagerstown. 28 in sterling. and right now down south of la plata around 30 degrees where the windchill is now around 20. the windchills toward sterling, around 18. and frederick, that windchill sitting at 15 degrees. you know it's cold enough for snow and that's why we have a winter weather advisory. notice this does not include northe virginia or most of maryland. only southern portions of maryland, and southern virginia including fredericksburg toward culpeper as well for the potential for a few inches of snow. we're no talking about a big storm but this is coming in a time period where it most of this snow will stick and it could po some problem. the bitter cold has fks bundling up trying to do anything they can to stay warm.

out in chevy chase maryland, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. absolutely gorgeous here behind me. it is allbout layering up and staying warm. and customers choosing trees very, very quickly. >> some people are very picky so they take 20 minutes. when it's cold, it's like five minutes. >> this day three of a very cold time. >> reporter: what makes it worse, the win making frost feel like a lot moreike 10. if you're outside, it is all about one thing. >> you have to dress warm out here. two pairs of pants n. two socks. >> reporter: layers. >> socks, gloves, honestly, layers.

montgomery county putting their hypothermia plan in place. the washington humane society reminding people to think about their animals. >> we are getting a lot of calls about dogs left outside in the cold weather. >> right now getting a dozen calls a day. >> it is 26 degrees today. it is bringing inhot water and cold weather. >> reporr: pets need to be with warm bedding. the temperatures still too cold for customers at peabody farmer's markets. and in downtown silver spring, this family coming inside. >> i have my daughter's hat on. >> reporter: sying inside for something warm. >> it is freezing. like yesterday i had on two shirts, a pair of leggings under my jean, a sweatshirt, a scarf, a hat, boots. >> reporter: of course, with the

potential snow coming morrow, these layers don't sound like such a bad idea. >> melissa, thank you very much. it iher first day reporting here with us on news4 and we find a nice way to initiate you. welcome to washington. >> it cold. >> i hope that it is not too cold nor you out there. >> thanks so much. a dramatic rescue in fairfax county after a man got trapped in a conveyor belt. chopper 4 was over the scene. firefighters stay 31-year-old was moving gravel into trucks when he got his foot stuck in that conveyor belt and it took firefighters two hour to get him out. he is expected to be okay. defense lawyers are trying to prove the beating of a uva student did not directly cause her death. george huguely is chaed with murdering his former girlfriend and fellow student yeardley love. at a hearing today, they tried

to poke hole in the go sto that she was killed by blunt forctrauma to the head. a doctor who has studied the autopsy results suggested love died from an abnormal heartbeat instead. a a judge will now decide whether huguely's lawyers can use her medical records to see if a heart condition led to her death. a popular d.c. nightclub is back in business two months after a man was allegedly beaten to death outside of it. >> reporter: last night a petition was filed trying to block this club from being able to reopen today. today, an appellate court judge ruled against that petition clearing the way for d.c. 9 to reopen. that could happen as soon as tonight. dc9 will reopen since the bar was forced to shut down after a n was killed. police say 27-year-ol ali mohamed died after being chased, tackled and beaten by four bar

workers and the owner in the early morning hours. >> what are they doing? a person died. it is not a dog. it is a human being. >> reporter: initially the bar workers and owner were charged with second-degree murder they call a case of vigilante justice. >> someone lost their life in a savage beating that appear to be vigilante justice. ridiculous. >> reporter: the next day the charge were reduced to aggravated assault after the preliminary finding was inconclusive on the cause have death. on november 5, all charges were dropped. >> at the end of the day, that club should never be open again. this f they open, it should be under new management. >> reporter: mohamed was from ethiopia. his death, the release of the sxukz the planned reopening of the club have all angered the ethiopian community. hundreds of shown up at various vigils and protests. >> we will never stop fighting

until justice is done. >> reporter: the d.c.'s alcohol control board is allowing the bar to reopen with restrictions. dc9 will employ police officers to provide security and the bar will not employ the work here's were involved in the beating incident. the club is also installed more than a dozen surveillance cameras and provide extensive security workers with background checks. >> action by the united states attorney under some circumstance or another, that have the bar had to reopen. >> reporter: according to the dc9 website, the establishment will reopen at 9:00 tonight. we've reported a lot on the controversy regarding the establishment but some people were happy that it will reopen. it is a very popular bar here in this neighborhoo we'll have more on that side of the story coming at 6:00. for now, darcy spencer, reporting live. >> thank you. the pentagon metro rail station was closed for a couple hours thisorning due to a suspicious package. someone reported seeing some

lights blinking in a subway trash can. it started out to be a harmss -- turned out to be a harmless christmas ornament that someone tossed out. during the investigation, trains re forced to pass through the station without stopping. that meant passengers that to get off at a different station and walk or take a bus to the pentagon. the scare me one day after investigators revealed a northern virginia man was arrested for plotting to blow up metro trains. fairfax county police are cracking down on professional shoplifters. they have already arrested dozens of people and recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise stolen from our local malls. chris goon joins us now with more on this crackdown during the holiday season. >> reporter: good evening. police say some of the shoplifters are local and others are from out ofstate. they're stealing identification, using phony credit cards and grabbing merchandise. like expensive clothing, perme and cologne. there is a special unit called

retail anti-theft team that are working with stores. professionals work to steal merchandise and work in team. this video from store surveillance cameras was supplied to us by the national retail federation. this holidayseason, local malls like fair oaks and potomac mills have been working closely with police to catch shoplifters in e act. recently they arrested suspects who came here from prince george's county. >> they arrested in the parking lot of the macy's parkg lot. and we recovered the vehicle. the vehicle retained about $13,000 in stolen merchandise from various malls throughout the area. >> police providedhese pictures of expensive clothing that had been stolen. this hospital season, police have recovered hundred of thousands of dollars in merchandise. fairfax county police retail anti-theft team have made dozens

of arrests and expect to make more. >> currently we have seven day a week coverage in the malls. every mall in fairfax county has coverage. some are uniform. some are plain clothes but we have somebody in every mall, basically every store looking for people to come shoplift. >> reporter: these three suspects from new york city were arrested last saturday with 50 stolen identification cards, marijuana in their cars, and a trunk lad of iphones bound for potential resnael neyo tential resale in new york. >> we see them from florida to new york. they'll steal merchandise along the way and then liquid ate the goods and queens, new york, is an example. >> reporter: shoplifting nationwide is a problem. 82% of all stores have been hit by thieves at one time or another. the fairfax county police have a warning. if you shoplift, you will get caught.

barbara? wendy? back to you. the senate passed president obama's tax cut compromise this afternoon. the package was approved by a vote of 81-19, showing unusually strong bipartisan support. a simple majority of 51 w required for passage. now it goes to the house. it will face stronger on that significant there and t votes may be close. final passage would prevent a tax increase for everyone on january 1. still to come new clues about the guan who stormed a school board meeting in florida. we'll have reaction from those who witnessed and experienced this ordeal. caught on tae. a burglar brags about the crime on the sial networking site. and d.c. police say thanks to the suspects, they have all the information they need torack him down. and they are feeling the freeze in florida. we're live as residents and tourists in the sunshine state brace for another day of really cold weather.

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a water leak forced dozens in gaithersburg from their apartments. it caused electrical issues.

firefighters condemned the building. no word on when residents will be allowed back. tis the season for that. we'll see a lot more of that as temperature today rock bottom. >> this is the coldest winter we've seen, the coldest december we've seen in many years. a very cold winter. you might as well throw some snow into the mix. we still have one more nig of bitterly cold temperature as we look across the city. clear skies but the clouds will continue to move in toward the area by tomorrow morning. you will notice those cloudss far as the temperatures are concerned. we're sitting at 31 degrees. windchills though at 20 as the winds are out of the west at 16 to 20 miles an hour. so we're going to be talking about the windchills through the night. by tomorrow, the winds will relax. that's the very good news. 23 in hagerstown.

27n frederick. 31 toward quantico. fredericksburg coming in wh a temperature of 35 degrees. look at the windchills. everybody into the teens. la plata, around 20. a very cold evening that will lead to a cold night and take a ok at this. we have that northwesterly flow from our main storm system. that storm system is moving away. it will pave the way. we'll see some snow break out toward portion of alabama. ice problem and a lot of travel problems. also toward georgia, what did that mean for us? that area of low presre will make its way east. it will start to snow about 8:00, 9:00 tomorrow morning. anything fall because it's been so col will stick on the roadways. so make sur you give yourself some extra time out there tomorrow. that area of low pressure is gog to be a very fast mover and it will mov out of here,

probably by 6:00, 7:00. that does not leave a lot of time in there for sn but i think we will be able to squeeze out one to three i of snow, depending on where you live. high pressure for the day on friday. giving us a little better weather. the temperatures will be a little warmer. we're talking about areas toward fauquier county, stafford county and southward toward fredericksburg. how much snow do i think? around the district, one to two inches. no advisories yet. down to e south we're talking about two to three inches of snow. so nothing like what we saw last year. it can still pose some problems out there as we make our way through theush hour. tomorrow morning and tomorrow evening. tonight, clear skies. cold. low temperatures, temperature into the 20s to around 30 degrees. tomorrow morning, 15 to 20 degrees. snow moving in and it will stick as soon as it starts to fall. cloudy with snow, light to moderate. as we move through the next four days, the good news is behind the snow, we'll warm up to a

high near 38. friday and saturday, a couple nice days and then a very slight chance of snow on monday. >> how much accumulation right here in town? >> right here, one to two inches. that's about it. >> we can handle that. it's a parent's nightmare. watching your child take a tragic fall, leaving him unable to do simple things like walk or talk. >> dorn gentzler has one teenager's road to recovery after a trauma brain injur >> it was going to be a new day and i was going to high school. >> reporter: since august 31, 14-year-old austin said he's been living in a dream. >> like everything was fake. >> reporter: on august 31, just days before austin was supposed to start high school, his entire life changed. it was that day that he and his family were hiking near a water fall in northern new jersey. >> as soon as we got to the water fall, we parked the car.

he got out and saw what a beautiful area it was. and he just couldn't resist. he started climbing up the rocks. >> he lost his footing and slipped. he fell 50 feet on to the rocks below. his father, a lieutenantcolonel in the army, climbed down to get him. >> he was bleeding from his nose and his ear. i could not get a pulse but he was breathing. >> reporter: austin was air lifted to a nearby hospital. he was put into a medically induced coma for five days. the doctors told his parents that he had sustained a severe epidural hematoma. a dramatic brain injury. >> the worst fear was that he wouldn't make it. and then an mri reveal that he had had a pretty serious bruise on the back of his neck. could have easily been a quadplegic. >> reporter: about two week after his fall, he was making small strides. he was conscious and could move his body but he couldt remember how to do simple tasks.

he was moved to the kennedy krieger institute in baltimore. a pediatric rehabilitation facili specializing in brain injuries. >> he was not eatg by mouth. he wasn't able to walk without assistance. he really wasn't able to talk to get any words out. >> reporter: the doctor specializes treating children with injuries like austin. she believed austin could return to a normal life but he would need comprehensive treatment working th the team of specialists, including doctors, nutritionists, speech and physical therapists. >> one of the thi we look at is how quickly the child starts to change. we knew in the grand spectrum, he was changing fairly rapidly so we had very high hopes for his recovery. >> reporter: they called today day 99. 99 days since he fell. he's worked hard during the past few months and now he is not just walk without assistance but he is running and jumping. his speech has improved dramatically. with the exception of a few

fading scars, most people would have no idea about what happened to him. >> we're in the midst of a marathon. it will be a long race and we don't know exactly how it will end. we're very hopeful. >> reporter: doreen gentzler, news4. >> they tell us austin is like a typical teenager. he still has a pretty bad tremor in his right hand but doctors hope he will overcome that. >> he does have a hard time processing information but he'll be starting high scol in a few week and everyone expects him to be able to go on to college. >> up next, the food police file a class action soos against mcdonald's. w

> a california mother has filed a class action lawsuit against mcdonald's. she claim the fast food chain is using toys as bait to lure kids, along with the parents, to the restaurant for the happy meals which are loaded with calories. sacramento woman filed a suit along with help from the center r science in the public interest. they are not seeking monetary damages. they both want the fast food chain to stop advertising toys to kids. a mcdonald's spokesperson said they wil goal, vigorously defe the brand. your virginia neighbors are among wealthiest and smartest in the country. w census data reveal the new information for fall church is more than $113,000. on top of that, seven ouof ten adults over 25 have at least a bachelor's degree. 39% hold advanced degrees. people in loudoun and fairfax counties are also seeing lots of green, too. the median incomes there are

also in the six figures. still ahead, they say crooks are stupid on facebook. the suspected burglar bragged about his crime online and posted pictures on facebook so everybody could see. plus, fed up and fired up. what residents are demanding from police. if you're heading out for the holidays, you're not alone. we'll tell why you more people plan to trav

defense lawyers are trying to prove the beating haveuva student yeardley love did not rectly cause her death. her former boyfriend george hugly charged in her murder. at a hearing today, the doctor suggests the autopsy suggests she may have died from a heart condition, not blunt trauma. the judge will decid whether to let love have the medical

records as evidence. a popular nightclub is opening two months after a man was allegedly beaten outside. five dc9 employees wre at the center of the investigation but charges were later drop. the club will be back in business tonight with new rule in place. the pub security must undergo background checks. the senatehas passed president obama's tax compromise in a strong show of bipartisanship. the measure moves to the house where it is expected to face more intense opposition from mocrats. if the bill does not pass, taxes will go up on january 1. let's fast forward to the weather. the weather right now, still cold outside. 31 degrees, the current temperature. the wilmingtndchill, still a fa. hagerstown at 11. 17 in manassas and 24 toward quantico. what will we be seeing? ow moving in. we he a winter weather advisory for area to the south.

i'll have more a little later. >> d.c. police are looking for a burglary suspect who not only broke into a house. he broke into a facebook account benging to one of the vict to post a photo of himself carrying out the crime. >> this all happened at the home of a prominent d.c. urnalist. pat collin join us with more on this. reporter: hi. you know, i don't think i could tell this story better than mark fisher wrote it. but it is a storyyou need to hear. so we're going to go ahead with it. he works for the "washington post." as he good man. a good writer, a good dad. last iday, he got an e-mail from his 15-year-old son. just one word. it said, help. and so mark fisher, erased home to see what was goi on. >> we were immediately ushered

out of the house by the police who searched on the theory that th thief might still be ithe house. >> reporter: you see someone broke into mark fisher's home and stole his son's ipod, his son's computer, his sos computer. that thief even took his brand new winter coat. it was still inhe box. if that wasn't bad enugh, that burglar used mark fisher's son's computer to take a picture of herself holding the stoen money, wearing the stolen co, and he posted that picture on mark fisher's son's face book page. >> with a years in on his face and his fingers pointing to what he had gotten from our house. it was men to taunt and gloat and it had that emotional powerful especially because it invade the space that tnager, my son thought was very private. >> reporter: tt night, police told mark fisher, they were not too optimistic about solving

burglary cases. >> the police said there are thousands of burglaries every year and the cots don't generally do anything to the people who commit them. and so the police themselves don't feel any need to put a lot of energy into burglary ases. >> reporter: so what is the lesson here? >> when you live in a big city, nobody is safe and unfortunately we live in a society where some people are struggling and don't have the moral fiber to struggle in the right way. >> reporter: so it appears this suspect mayave creed his own wanted poster. if you recognize him, if you know anything about the case, d.c. police want to hear from you. >> well, somebody out there must recognize that that i can interest, pat. >> reporter: a very good likeness. i must say. >> hopefully they will be able to soiflt, having th photograph. thank you, pot collins. i thought you told that story really well. a 23-year-old was indicted

today. three months after a fatal crash in adamsmorgan. a grand jury charged chamica edwards with involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, driving while intoxicated a driving under the enough alcohol and or drugs. police say she jumped a median and crashed into two pedestrians, killing one ofhem and injuring the other. she is due back in court next month for hearraignment. more police presence and less crime. that's what they are demanding. it was on the cone of martin luther king avenue. they're angry over a stream of robberies. they say they live in fear every day. police in florida w belie the gunman who opens fire on a school board meeting had been planning that attack for some time.

we want to warn you, this video may be disturbing to some viewers. investigators found the 56-year-old clay duke ranted about it on facebook. he also circled theateon his calendar at his home. he confronted the school board yesterday. he then began ranting about his wife being fired from the school system. one woman who had left the room came back and began hitting him with her purse. >> i don't think anything was going through my mind except for the fact these guys were sitting duck. they were lined up like pigeons on a wire. >> the gunman began firing but no one was hurt. he eventually took his own life. >> still to come, more than $3 million crystal meth taken off the streets of d.c. we'll tell you how investigators cracked the case. famous for their $1 fares. now

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well. getting to watch the duke ellington's pruction of dream girl was one of the holiday treats several of our wednesday's kids got to enjoy. all thanks to aroject dreamed up by arts activist tracy jenkins. >> each year we try to find an opportunity to serve children who are eat in foster care program or adoption agencies. >> reporter: her foundation art creates life came up with a project she call dreamcatchers. and in the duke elgto school of the arts graduate herself, she got ellington's staff, graduates and friends to join in including a former classmate. now meet the brown star lehman zucker will. >> we go to help people who are activists. >> reporter: our wednesday eights children know something about having a dream. are you a dream girl? >> yeah. >> reporter: tell me about your dream. >> my dream is to get an

adoption family and to be able to meet mr. bieber. >> reporter: what do you dream about? >> to be a basketball prayer, a basketball player. >> rock roads. when i came to you at six ags, we talked and i kept going. >> reporter: and while many of our kids are still waiting and hoping, like jenfer, she has so other hope and dream in the meantime. >> christmas, presents. >> reporter: and those holiday dream were realized and itust happened that each of the children got something they had been wishing for. she got pink pajamas with monkeys on them. >> reporter: you dreamed of pajamas with monkeys on them and it really came true? wow. that means your other dreams may

come true, too. >> news4 for wednesday's child. if you have room in your home and your heart for wednesday's child, please call the special adoption hotline. 1-88 to adopt me or you can logon to our home page at nbcwashington.com. it was so exciting. i got to hear from jd that he just fnd a family. >> that's wonderful. >> reporter: something to celebrate. >> that's the best. coming up, we've just learn the house has now passed the bill to repeal don't ask don't tell. we'll have more of that coming up. next, pack your patience. experts say more people are planning to travel this holiday season. and the caps on the ice tonight, trying to put an end to the six-game losing streak.

it's time for the great cape. >> more people are expected to travel over the christmas hospital compared to last year.

the majority of the travelers, 92% will drive to their destinations. the average cost of gas rose today to $2.98 a gallon according to aaa. that's about nine cents more than a month ago and 39 cents more than a year ago. >> reporter: in spite of the deep freeze around the country, it seems americans are warming up to the idea of holiday travel again. >> i travel to see my family. >> reporter: aaa predicts 93.te million will travel, up more than 3% from last year and the fifth straight holiday cease an increase over the year before. >> some americans, i emphasize some, who are feeling more confident about their financial situations, when compared to a year. >> reporter: more than nine out of ten plan to drive. while 2.75 million will take off in the air. >> last year we had a blizzard

in virginia. and then like an icestorm in new jersey. >> reporter: it is not just the number of travelers this year. hotels will cost more. and gas prices have skyrocketed in recent weeks. the national average at $2.98. up almost 40 cents from this time las year. high oil prices fueling the run-up at a time when gas is traditionally at its lowest point of the year. >> we've never had $3 a gallon gasoline on a national average for christmas time. >> reporter: still, it seems high prices can't bring down that holiday spirit. >> reporter: as american get toward road trip. >> people say they plan to travel farther than they did last year. an average of more than 1,000 miles total and no surprise, most say their main objective is spding time with friends and family. kristen dahlgren, washington. and travel bigg bus just got

easier. mega bus expanded its service from d.c. to 11 new cities. those destinations include boston, pittsburgh, knox ville and harrisburg. passengers can even book a ride to toronto. mega bus said it offers fares to all of its destinations for as low as $1 if you book early enough. >> you can't beat that. >> yeah. >> do they have internet access on the bus? >> probably. >> you know what? they d actually. i don't know about that particular one but people who take those rave about them. >> i wasn't familiar with mega bus. >> what's withhe capitals? >> i wish i could tell you they will break the streak but we can tell you. this this is not ideal timing for them. narly having the cameras around to tape he have move for the

first episode of the show centered around your team wou be a good thing. the problem is, the show is starting while the caps are in the midst of their longest losing streak in three years. thing have gotten so bad that the normally jovial bruce boudreau got very testy when asked about his job security recently. lindsay czarniak with. >> reporter: a couple thing. i'm not trying to say anything about superstition or jinxes or anything but their losing streak began right when those hb crews showed up. so the hbo tapings that have gone o haven't included any sort of winning. that's part of the reason they want to right this ship. but tonight is about getting back to the wa they know how to play hockey and it seem like in this time of triumph, really, that they're looking for, they need different people to come up and have a sparring. that's what haened last week. let me take you back to the ice. ovechkin threw a head check on

dane girardi. then skated up ice, dropped his glove to go at brandon dubinsky. he wrestled ovechkin tohe ice. the only fight occurred december 2 against the buffalo sabres. he said nothing special. other teammas say, hey, it really did help us pick it up. >> from the moment it appeared, you can see go in the last couple ars, we now have this situation. we need to wake up. >> i love it. it shows he is a warrior. a competitor. it shows how bad hwants to win. i don't want to see him doing it very often, that's for sure. but it is a spark. it's something that we needed as a group and heneeded it too. i will do anything, battle through anything to get wins.

and i looked up t him before and even more now. >> the timing, you know, i've seen that happen and i've seen better results happen on the scoreboard. and it didn't really come around for us. but he is a big guy. he can handle himself. he is the best player in the world. you don't want him doing that very often, if ever. not breaking his hands or a finger. i don't think he can damag his face. >> so you hear his teammates saying they appreciate his spark but they say let's just keep it to the regular hockey. they don't want him to get injured. another note about t specialists debuting. they say parental discretion advised. they put a note about that on the capitols' website. this is raw emotion and when a team is going through a losing streak like they've een, the stuff you see. they aren't able to experience the music in the clubhouse after a win.

it is all raw management. >> i'll be curious to see how much raw emotion there is. don't you think they have probably dialed back what they would be saying with those cameras around? >> no. we've asked that question. not an ought. they did hard knos following the new york jets and rex ryan went crazy. i'm that'll bruce boudreau, very much the same. he did not dial it back and it is in the heat of passion that you reallyee him get very colorful and fiery. but i have a hankering feeling these guys are pretty real on that show tonight. >> good stuff. that will be 10:00n hbo. thcapitals playing at 7:00. we'll see you at 6:00. >> what did knuble mean by you can't hurt his face? >> i wouldn't nt to ask. >> we'll translate. >> thanks a lot. let's check inith weather. with doug. >> that's right. that's my department. my department says it is cold outside. the current temperature, 31

degrees. normally when it is is cold in our area, you think to yourself, maybe i'll head to florida. that might not be exactly what you want to do rit now. paul goodloe fromhe weather channel has more. >> reporter: i'mn lakeland, flida, about a half-hour to the east tampa area and i'm standing in a strawberry field. also, there's an orange and tangerine and grapefruit orchard to my right. this is a huge industry in this ate and at risk because of the weather. the arctic blast is coming into florida and that was a concern to all types of growers and faermz strawberries, they start out as a nice little white bloom and eventually, this grows into a nice sweet, tasty fm the. this is a concern because people might have had strberries for breakfast. also the orange juice. this is the orange for juicing. 80% of the orange juice you drink in the u.s. comes from florida oranges. also at risk, if temperatures drop in this field to 19 degrees

this morning, and that is putting a combination of a strawberry industry, a $10 billion industry at risk of mar losses which mean your strawberry, your orange juice i the morning could cost you more money. the good news is i talked to the grower. he had to hunt hard. after two back to back nights, the temperature either in the low 20s or down to the upper teens like they were this morning. he relatively got off unscathed. it might take another 24 hours to find the total losses and it might take even two week for the industry but overall the tempatures have warmed to 60 degrees. hopefully we're out of the cold cell we've been dealing th as of late in parts of the southeast as well as most of the nation. i'm meteorologist paul goodloe. back to you. thanks. that area is unanother hard freeze warning. one more night tonight. then they will start to warm up. and we will start to warm up after tomorrow. and of cour, tomorrow also

marks our snowfall. right now, the current temperature, 31 degrees. 28 in sterling. 25 toward manassas. windchills even colder th. that look at the winter weather advisory. this is for snow into the day tomorrow. most of rush hour should be okay. we'll probably start to see the snowfall from west to east between say, 7:00 and 9:00. some areas under a winter weather advisory for one to two to three inches of snow. i'll let you know what i think you will get in your area. >> all right. thank you. here's jim vance with a look at what's new. ming up, police have arrested a doctor in virginia. two patients claim they received some unwanted tanattention. sometimes pictures say more than words. we'll show you a magical creation that cme because of thought cold weaer. where is that? >> it could be florida. >> florida.

>>mbe. it's cold down here. >> i'll say indiana. coming up next, a multimillion-dollar drug st in the district ends with several arrests and they stay suspect had ties to a violent mexican cartel. but first, search nbcwashington.com.

law enforcement agents say they have broken up an attempt by a mexican carterel. the drug ring wanted to sell millions of crystal meth, cocaine and marijuana. tom sherwood rerts. >> reporter: d.c. police chief cathy lanier announced the arrest of eight people involved with the east coast drug praying. an attempt by the notorious la familia drug gang i mexico to smuggle drugs through atlanta into winston-salem, north carolina, marynd, and the nation's capital. >> the cartel based out of michoacan,mexico, they're notorious for smuggling not only crystal meth but also cocaine. winter of the philosophies in mexico is that they don't sell to their own people. to their own mexico an nationals themselves prefer to have it smuggled in the united states. >> reporter: he praised his

officers. >> over theourse of the past three week, i almost pulled the officers off several times. very dangerous. the officers are extremely heroic in their ability to go ouand do what they do to protect people in washington, d.c. >> reporter: the illegal drs includg millions in crystal th were seized in north carolina charging documents say they tracked the activity in to have this house in temple hills, maryland. >> we were abl to disrupt the large scale trafficking organization that was tapting to get a foothold in the district of columbia. and surrounding areas. reporter: the law enforcement officials say the major bust is just an example of a tough approach to any drug traffiing. >> our office is committed to prosecuting anybody from the street level dealer to the international cartel bosswho attempts to bring drugs into the d.c. area. >> reporter: tom sherwood, news4, washington. >> and tom tells us nine people were indicted all will be brought to

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